Social Superblocks
A spatial allocation method for Barcelona's home-care service that moved from neighbourhood demand to contiguous service zones, using the social-superblock model to connect urban form with how care is organised.
- Period
- 2019–2020
- Status
- Completed research
- Role
- Researcher and spatial data analyst
- Scale
- Barcelona
Barcelona's home-care service had to reconcile where support was needed with how teams could work across a continuous and practical territory. Administrative boundaries describe jurisdiction, but they do not necessarily produce coherent care areas at neighbourhood scale.
My contribution
For my double-master thesis and internship at BCNecologia, I devised a spatial allocation method for the Superilles Socials programme. The method used genetic algorithms to form contiguous social-superblock zones, then evaluated them against service demand, compactness and neighbourhood indicators. The research connected an urban-form proposition to the organisation of a municipal care service rather than treating the superblock only as a mobility intervention.
What can be checked.
- A thesis deposited in the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya institutional repository under its original-language title.
- A spatial allocation model built for Barcelona's home-care service within the Superilles Socials programme.
- Genetic-algorithm optimisation of contiguous service zones, evaluated against demand, compactness and neighbourhood indicators.
- A method that translates the superblock from a street-design concept into a framework for organising neighbourhood-scale care.
Documents, code and live work.
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